The main line is the story of a pair of vicious lovers - the scheming Marquise Merteuil and the playboy Viscount Valmont, who designed to seduce the virtuous woman, Madame Tourvel, and finally lost all three; in addition, they also seduced the virgin Cécile to get revenge on her ex-husband. The ideological value of the novel lies in criticizing the decadence, hypocrisy and vanity of the upper class society of the feudal dynasty, the artistic value lies in ruthlessly exposing the intrigues and intrigues in the emotional world, and the literary value lies in the ingenious epistolary format and the elaborate language, and it lasts for a long time. The real reason for its persistence is probably related to the imaginative erotic description, so that some people call it the French version of "Jin Ping Mei". In this emotional stake, everyone is a loser. Valmont and Tourvel's short-lived love, which was the most beautiful thing in the whole story, became the cause of tragedy, how ironic and tragic.
The film, the Hollywood debut of British director Stephen Frears, got off to a good start: not only was it a big hit at the box office, it was nominated for seven Oscars, including best picture, and finally won three. The performances of the three main characters have been widely praised, especially the two women, Glenn Close and Michelle Pfeiffer, who were nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars respectively, but neither of them has yet achieved their golden dreams. The male lead, John Malkovich, has nothing to say, but the image is bad enough but not handsome enough. If it can be combined with Colin Firth in another version of the same period ("Valmont"), it will be perfect.
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